Z-440 vs. Z4 G4

I'm thinking about swapping out my z-440 to a. Z4 g4.

My memory and GPU etc will swap over. But it will even up costing me $150ish after everything washes out.

Is it with the rib to get to that? On board m.2, next Gen Xeon... Not to much more. Is it worth it?

TYIA 😎👍🏻

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u/linuxed1 — 14 days ago

Free 9 pin serial port

I have a 9 pin serial port with its cable that came with my z440 and I'm never going to use it. If anybody wants it let me know.

u/linuxed1 — 1 month ago

New HP Z-440 workstation (Pt 2.)

So I got my second HP z-440 today and it was very bare bones, 500W PS, no ram shroud, some sort of xeon cpu (not sure yet it's not bootable)
Their is no on board graphics which I know, but the 500w PS doesn't have dual 6 pin connectors to support my MSI GTX-970 (I know POS).
So the good parts!
Uhhh I have a basic box.
My goal is to make two Z-440's out of one.
My original Z-440 came with 64GB of ram and a 20core xeon (beast for VM's) but not the best performance I can get out of this. I hear a core i7 can work??? But I ordered a Xeon E5-1680 8 cores 16 threads. Everything is telling me this is the optimal CPU for the job. Also I bought a GeForce RTX 3060 (12 GB GDDR6) for it.
It's great, can I get this other z-440 to get close to that????

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u/linuxed1 — 1 month ago

Hey happy Labor day! 2 part question:

  1. I'm changing my Z-440 from a Intel Xeon E5-2698 v4 2.20GHz 20 core, to a Intel Xeon E5 1680 V4 LGA 2011-3

(story to follow)
So the Xeon E5 1680 V4 LGA 2011-3 is the highest performance Xeon (I know about the i7's) to build a powerful workstation out of this specific box.
So to get to my point... other than (I've done this before) resetting the bios is their anything else to do?

  1. Ok the Xeon E5-2698 v4 2.20GHz 20 core.
    I picked up a bare (really bare) Z-440 for $100 It doe have a power supply. My current Z-440 has 64GB of 8GB DDR-4 ECC ram.
    So I'm going to split it. I have an old "graphics" card, several m.2 SSD's.
    I'm thinking of selling it off. I do not need the whole 2nd setup, but I don't want it to go to waste.
    I have a decent Lenovo T-14s with a core i7 running my very small home lab that I doubt will grow too much.

So other than sell it (locally I do not want to ship it) what else could I use it for?

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u/linuxed1 — 1 month ago

What happened to pintrest?

For the past two months on pintrest getting recipes is like pulling teeth. All the posts want you to buy a book... Looks like I'm about to drop that form of social media next.

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u/linuxed1 — 1 month ago

What happened to pintrest?

For the past two months on pintrest getting recipes is like pulling teeth. All the posts want you to buy a book... Looks like I'm about to drop that form of social media next.

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u/linuxed1 — 2 months ago
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Linux Kernel 7.2

I'm running Kubuntu 26.40 can I upgrade the kernel to 7.2 without blowing up my system? If so what will happen?

Thanks in advance!

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u/linuxed1 — 2 months ago
▲ 58 r/philly

I miss Pierre

I know he was never a sports fan, but he was a sports fan :-) and he would have loved the world cup being around Philadelphia and everything going on about it!

I also know he would have found absolute Glory for this city over to 250th anniversary of our independence for this country!

There will never be another Pierre Robert, and you are missed. ✌🏻❤️☕

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u/linuxed1 — 3 months ago
▲ 19 r/linux

Kubuntu Linux

I keep an eye on distro watch, I don';t understand why is Kubuntu not as popular as it should be?

Granted everyone has a fav. but as far as an easy to use, well supported distro. I think it's awesome.

It's powerful, 26.04 comes with the 7.0 kernel. And it works on just about everything.

I know they came out and said 8gb ram etc. That is a suggestion, not a rule.
I just think across my platforms (home 3 systems) it just works.
I know not everyone us an ubuntu fan boy, be nice and give me a real opinion.

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u/linuxed1 — 4 months ago

HP Z-440 motherboard upgrade

Hi folks! I'm thinking about upgrading this motherboard and processor, is their any MFG's who's motherboard will fit in here properly?

I'm thinking core i9, new GPU etc.

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u/linuxed1 — 4 months ago

My setup.

This is it I have a Lenovo t14s gen 1 with the Intel core i7. Running proxmox. I've got my Nas to the left that's 1 TB nvme's mirrored. Currently my raspberry pi is running on that box on the right. But I will load pie hole on the proxmox server when I get the time. But everything works! Rather smoothly also :-)

u/linuxed1 — 5 months ago

Touch screen swap?

So I have a higher end T14s, it had a touch screen and is acting as a media server.

Also I have a slightly less powerful T14S, same Gen. It does not have a touch screen.

Can I swap the screens so my daily driver has a touch screen?

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u/linuxed1 — 5 months ago

Printer for Ubuntu

I've got a newer HP color laser jet, and a 10+ year old Canon Black laser printer. Both wireless.

Which printer is most likely supported?

Unfortunately I do not have the model names in front of me.

Ty in advance

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u/linuxed1 — 5 months ago

I want to image one drive to another in Kubuntu. Any suggestions? I've tried a couple but they are just partition managers.

I'm also going to order an nvme duplicator.
Trying to fill out 200 Characters to post.

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u/linuxed1 — 6 months ago
▲ 21 r/linux

So I have a Lenovo laptop and I'm going to sell it. I would like to sell it with Ubuntu, or fedora installed.
How do I do that without me logging in etc.? so I know windows has a command to prep it for being logged in as a new user.
Does either Ubuntu, or fedora do that?

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u/linuxed1 — 6 months ago